A Few Short, Sweet Wuxia Stories

A discarded medicine girl x a disgraced, half-crippled young master with a dark temperament

*Jiang Yu is a medicine girl.

The moment her master abandoned her, she should have been doomed. But the infamous young master, the sworn enemy of her former master, turned out to be a sickly invalid, paralyzed from the waist down.

He didn't kill her. With a sinister smile, he said he would torment her slowly.

Jiang Yu wasn't afraid of him. She only felt sorry for him.

After an assassination attempt sent them tumbling to the bottom of a cliff, he was gravely wounded and near death. He clutched her sleeve, eyes reddening, and pleaded weakly, "Don't leave me behind."

Jiang Yu wouldn't abandon him. She just thought he was an idiot.

A spirited young swordsman x a delicate young lady from a prominent family

*They meet at a lantern festival. The pampered young lady pokes the sword at the boy's waist, curious.

"Is it for righting wrongs and fighting the wicked?"

The boy twirls the sword tassel, his gaze passing over the moon-shaped ornament by the girl's ear. He smiles. "It is."

With a three-foot sword, he would cut down every injustice in the world.

Later, that same sword used to fight the wicked would also be used to roast meat for the girl after he climbed through her window in the middle of the night.

A penniless beauty of a cult leader x a rich, spoiled young lady

*The imperial court is once again threatening to wipe out the demonic cult.

To intimidate the court, the cult decides to make trouble and abducts the leader's child.

Half a month later, they realize they've kidnapped the wrong person!

The cult can barely afford to support its own members. They try to send her back, only to discover...

This young lady not only refuses to leave, she has even slept with their cult leader!

In the first month, the leader loses his chastity. It's a matter of grave importance, and the elders are devastated, beating their chests and stamping their feet.

In the second month, the young lady spends money like water. The elders weep with gratitude and proactively offer the beautiful cult leader up for the cult's advancement.

The cult leader: Nice.

A eunuch with unrivaled martial arts x a transmigrated woman who loves courting death

*Everyone knows that the vicious, twisted eunuch in the imperial palace of the capital, whose martial arts are peerless, hates being called a eunuch to his face.

Then Ji Yan appears and asks him, openly curious, "Did you castrate yourself because of the Sunflower Manual or the Evil-Warding Swordplay?"

Wang Sheng has never heard of the Sunflower Manual and doesn't know what the Evil-Warding Swordplay is.

Back then, his family was so poor that his father sold him to an old eunuch for a steamed bun.

The palace attendants break into a cold sweat, sure that Wang Sheng has been provoked. But he doesn't get angry.

Later, after they marry, Wang Sheng thinks that, as an incomplete man, he shouldn't share a bed with her. But the girl drags him right onto it.

"There, there, don't be scared." The transmigrated woman gazes at him with shining eyes. "I know how to do all kinds of things!"

Who would have thought that even a eunuch enthusiast like her would get to put her fantasies into practice one day!

An albino, blind, obsessive young master x a cool-headed, decisive woman physician

*Gu Yue is thrown into a demon's lair.

They say terrifying monsters are imprisoned there. But when she goes inside, she sees a white-haired young man with a blindfold.

White hair, unusual eyes. Oh!

He's an albino.

Let's fight superstition, starting with me.

Gu Yue calmly settles in and helps him manage his condition every day. The young master may be blind, but he can see people's hearts. He protects her and treats her with kindness and courtesy.

Only later does Gu Yue learn that he is the notorious villain of the martial world.

He's sick, not in his appearance or his eyes, but in his heart.

She once promised to cure him, but later the young master gently tells her that she is the medicine that has cured his heart's sickness.

Then he leans over her again, smiling as he gets frisky with her.

Gu Yue, drugged and unable to speak: ...For fuck's sake, can someone tell him I never even wanted to run away?

A cool, aloof Taoist priest x a sweet, soft little girl

*A wealthy family moves in beside Xie Changming's Taoist temple.

They have a little girl who is intensely curious about the temple and the Taoist priest who lives there. She often tiptoes over and sneaks across the wall.

One day, she comes as usual, but anxiously wipes away her tears and tugs at his robe. "Priest, my kitty's gone missing!"

"Could you please tell me where it is? I'll offer all the gold leaves I've saved to the temple, sob..."

Her crying annoys Xie Changming, so he casts a divination and tells her, "It's southeast of the temple."

"...Or northeast."

Casting divinations is a Taoist priest's specialty, yet Xie Changming hesitates and gives her two directions.

The little girl runs off happily, leaving him alone in the courtyard, holding his forehead.

His divinations don't work when it comes to her.

Later, the little girl climbs over in the middle of the night, holding her kitty and looking nervous. "Priest, let's elope!"

Xie Changming calmly pulls his robe out of her grasp and tells her, "Taoist priests aren't monks."

They can get married!

A young boy from the southern frontier who raises venomous insects x a girl determined to teach him to read

*The first time He He meets Nan Yang, she's struck by his beauty and wonders how a young man so dazzling could exist in the world.

Later, she learns that Nan Yang can't read a single character. Along with her admiration, she feels a pang of sympathy.

She resolves to educate him and help him fit into normal society.

Nan Yang, tending his venomous insect king: ?

For the sake of being with He He forever, Nan Yang once traveled a thousand miles back to the southern frontier to ask his older sister how to make a human gu.

Later, when He He is afraid it will hurt, he throws away everything needed to make one, anxiously wipes her tears himself, and soothes her helplessly.

The world's greatest assassin x the world's greatest couch potato

*Shiyi can't understand how someone like Madam Zhao could exist.

Lazy by nature, unwilling to work, greedy for food, money, and good looks, yet unwilling to strive for anything.

Where in the world does anyone get a windfall like that?

Later, he learns that such a windfall really does exist.

Madam Zhao: Let's get married.

He gives her all his savings, puts down his bloodstained dagger and learns to cook, and even takes care of all her strange demands.

Shiyi: ...This is just weird.

Theme: Love rises like the wind, and when the wind dies down, the longing remains.